KosovoIn February, opposition lawmakers in Kosovo’s parliament released multiple canisters of tear gas in protest of a deal to grant the country’s ethnic Serb minority more power in local government. TurkeyEarlier this month, tensions erupted in Turkey’s parliament as committees debated a bill to strip deputies of immunity from prosecution. The country’s highest court found that he violated the constitution by spending millions in government funds on his private residence. During the protest, security guards forcibly removed 20 members of the EFF party. Speaker al-Jubouri responded to the petition by asking president Fouad Massoum to dissolve the assembly, raising the possibility of early elections.

Source: National Post May 19, 2016 10:26 UTC